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<h1 id="toc0">The Book Commons</h1>
<p>Is the collection of all books which freely circulate among people. Most of them are unaccounted for.</p>

<p>I may borrow a book from someone, forget to return it, and then pass
it on to somebody else. I know a publisher who says "Books are not to
be loaned, nor returned".</p>


<h2 id="toc1">Bookcrossing</h2>
<p><a nicetitle="http://www.bookcrossing.com/" href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/" class="external" target="_blank">BookCrossing.com</a> is probably the best known web site promoting the book commons. The word <em>bookcrossing</em>
has recently been defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a
public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise."</p>


<h2 id="toc2">Liberated books</h2>
<p><a href="http://wanbooks.org/horde/wicked/display.php?page=WanderingBooks&amp;referrer=BookCommons">WanderingBooks</a>
is a different approach: it makes it easier to lend and borrow books
between personal collections, but it also promotes the book commons
through <em>liberated books</em>. A liberated book appears in the
collective catalog of everyone in the site. Anyone can borrow it, but
no one can keep it indefinitely,</p>

<p>However it's managed, or even unmanaged, the book commons is a wonderful idea.</p>

<p>After all, <a href="http://wanbooks.org/horde/wicked/display.php?page=BooksAreForUse&amp;referrer=BookCommons">BooksAreForUse</a>.</p>

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